char* to a string in C#

Question

I\'m calling a function from a native DLL which returns a char* pointer, how can I convert the returned pointer to a string ? I tried :

char* c = f         


        

Answer 1

Perhaps the native DLL is actually returning an ANSI string instead of a Unicode string. In that case, call Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi:

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
...
string s = Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi((IntPtr)c);